ASUS has improved the cooler design when compared to their previous DirectCU H2O design, the GTX 1080 Ti Poseidon will offer 40% more heatsink dissipation areas and a 20% increase in water channel flow. This new GPU design will have higher operating temperatures when running on air cooling only compare to a standard air cooled cards like STRX GTX 1080 Ti. Though, when running in hybrid mode with water cooling the card will much much better temps and results in higher overclock.

At this time ASUS has not announced the final clock speeds of ROG GTX 1080 Ti Poseidon, though it is likely to offer speeds that similar to ASUS’ existing GTX 1080 Ti Strix.

ASUS ROG POISEDON GTX 1080 Ti features:

Next-gen DirectCU H2O hybrid cooling for complete flexibility for either air or liquid cooling.